Mollie Wilson O'Reilly
@mollieoreilly
Editor at large for Commonweal magazine; writing at and sometimes other places, too. She/her.
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks—I had a ticket to "Salesman" in its final week, and "severe thunderstorms" couldn't keep me away.
We need a new word for this constant, petty abuse of power, because "pathetic" isn't strong enough anymore.
Everybody shut up and look at this picture of my kid at scout camp
When Cinco Paul writes a show spoofing movie themes from the 60s, he should call it
My teen pointed out this bizarre "quote" on the wall of the Judy Blume rest stop in NJ, and I'm going to be mad about the formatting choices made here for a long time. I did enjoy the display of Judy Blume memorabilia, though.
The Garden State Parkway had an apocalyptic vibe during tonight's sunset thunderstorm. Spectacular lightning also.
The most egregious high-profile speeding case I can remember was Jeannine Pirro getting clocked going 119mph in a 65 zone in Nichols, NY. She paid a fee of just under $400 and is now serving as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Embarrassed I didn't notice until I looked at the receipt, but it's true: she is a hard worker
Look, I know there's a lot of NYT nitpicking on here, but when Trump takes an L in particularly pathetic fashion and you frame it like this ("Is he secretly winning?"), you're not beating the allegations. He's never going to stop calling you failing and crooked! You can just say what happened!
Sort of! It's from The Simpsons. (I did peg the guy for a Yalie, but it was the fence that tipped me off)
I have been known to take a selfie with a train. Here I am at Steamtown. I can't tell you any facts about the train I'm standing in front of, but it was definitely neat. 🚂
Just tried to look up an actress (who's nominated for a Tony tonight) on Instagram. The AI helper I didn't ask for offered me this: a mashup of the bio for the actress in question and the handle and account of a totally different person. (Turns out her name is Sara, but I figured that out on my own)
Here's what I want to say about Platner: I've seen people here dismiss concerns about the tattoo by saying, "He apologized!" But until now I hadn't actually seen the apology, and are you KIDDING ME, this DARVO shit is supposed to be exonerating??
Too many adults don't recognize that the all-shortcuts approach is (a) obvious and (b) insulting. Sending a scout learning about animal care to a website that has illustrations like this one is a great way to teach them they can't trust even scout leaders to treat them with respect.
...Here I have found and opened "Sections," and everything is listed alphabetically, so "New York" isn't even on the screen. Australia is there! But I have to scroll down some more to get to "New York."
This is what I see when I open the app. You can scroll down and down and down and never see a NY-region-based story. To do that you have to open the "Sections" tab which isn't even visible here. It's to the right of "Lifestyle" and "Opinion." So you go up and then pull that menu bar to the left...
I hope your day brings you a nice treat, like my little friend here
"Disappointingly cautious" says the guy who wrote this in Dec. 2021
I was into "The Waltons" (in reruns) when I first saw "Roots," so it's Ralph Waite as the scummy first mate on the slave ship that hit me hardest.
Copy editors, who needs them, exhibit A this morning in the NYT
Be careful out there today, folks, the takes are WILD (This one is responding to a NYT post with the headline "Pollution worsened in South Bronx after congestion tolls, study finds")